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A letter from Robert Driscoll (b.1898) to Patrick English (1894-1970). The letter discusses the fact Patrick has yet to return home and accounts the activities of Patrick's friends who have returned home from the prison. Robert goes on to discuss speaking with Patrick's sister. He also asks if some of his friends are still in Frongoch, asking Patrick to give one of them a smoke to remember him by.This letter is from a collection Patrick English, an Irish Volunteer imprisoned in the Stafford and later Frongoch Prisons. He had at least six cousins fighting with the British Army in France during his incarceration.
The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).